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Comment by Max Gulker

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Managing director of technology policy at the Reason Foundation.
Raising the cost of all those innovation- and productivity-enhancing uses of computing would unequivocally harm American productivity, innovation, and global competitiveness. Knowingly imposing these costs on ourselves because of concerns about certain disruptive consequences of the technology would be a grave error.
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Max Gulker, “A Compute Tax Is the Wrong Answer for the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Work,” Reason Foundation, June 2, 2026.
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
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AI Verified Gulker calls taxing compute a grave error and discusses alternatives; this strongly opposes taxing capital/compute as AI changes labor. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: against. Gulker says making AI computing more costly would harm productivity and innovation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Reason Foundation commentary by Max Gulker, Jun. 2, 2026, contains this wording verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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